Happy Valentines Day!!!! I'm sitting here eating a delicious heart shaped sugar cookie that I wish I could share with y'all, but i guess you'll have to settle with my thoughts on this weeks reading instead. Sorry. ;) I know i have sort have complained the last few posts about how much this book irritates me but I actually liked these chapters. It' s sort of complicated because I want to like the book but the characters just drive me crazy. Alot of things were brought into the light that were just sort of a mystery before.
I have been waiting for a real reference to the title to show up and finally did. I found out that a man named Solomon is actually Milkmans grandfather and that pretty much the whole town of shalimar is named after him, at least I think that it is him that it is named after. When i was reading the part about the little kids singing the song about Solomon, a giant light bulb went on over my head. The SONG of SOLOMON. The kids were singing a SONG about SOLOMON. Maybe the song is the whole key to unraveling all of the secrets of Milkmans familys past, that or I am totally off and Kaya will have to set my thinking straight on tuesday. I think the whole thing about the song was pretty interesting though, the way that Milkman was able to piece everything together.
I cant decide whether or not I like Milkman a bit more from the chapters or if he still drives me nutty. It seems like he is finally starting to realize things and stop being so dang dumb but I am not yet sure if he is really changing. It seems like half of what I read this week was him thinking to himself and finally realizing how selfish he has been. I guess I have seen little gradual steps towards change but i dont think the actual change has occurred yet.
He seems like he is starting to understand Hagar but then he goes and sleeps with the Sweet chick. she is a prostitute right? Another reason why I don't like Milkman. Whats up with him having to sleep with everyone? Can't he just realize that he should be with Hagar and live happily ever after? guess not. gosh. But, I do think that the way that he actually went back to Sweet instead of just leaving her might mean something. I don't really understand how Sweet is significant to the book. I know that she is but I just cant quite figure it out.
I don't like Guitar any more then I have previously, but I don't blame him for not believing Milkman that he was simply helping someone, after all, Milkman really hasnt been known to offer his service volunteeringly.
I am excited to read on just to find out what Milkman will find out about his family and interested to see how the whole Journey to Self Discovery theme suits Nilkman.
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So, the students who are reading OHYOS are also witnessing their male characters' promiscuity. I believe that this is a motif of searching for identity, for intimacy. Milkman has never really had it. His breastfeeding upon his mother's breast until he was older than the usual age one breastfees, is his mother's way of seeking intimacy. There is a lack of it in this book. Yet, Pilate and her girls have it.
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